Recommend your battery-powered lawn mower

[Anonymous]

Title says it all!

(Does anyone on DCUM mow their own lawn? Maybe I’m about to find out.)

[Anonymous]

My neighbor got an expensive one and it doesn’t mow as well as the cheapest gas powered one.

[Anonymous]

We have a Ryobi and a large suburban lot. We own 4 batteries but I can mow front and back with 2 if the grass isn't too long already. DH cuts it too short (IMO) and usually needs 3. The batteries also work with the edger and some other tools.

Look, it's not as robust as a gas mower. It just isn't. But it's quieter, and I don't like to store or mess with gas. The lawn looks fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a Ryobi and a large suburban lot. We own 4 batteries but I can mow front and back with 2 if the grass isn't too long already. DH cuts it too short (IMO) and usually needs 3. The batteries also work with the edger and some other tools.

Look, it's not as robust as a gas mower. It just isn't. But it's quieter, and I don't like to store or mess with gas. The lawn looks fine.

Very helpful, TY! We have a back yard only and it’s pretty small. Not at all interested in a gas mower. Do you have other Ryobi tools? Thinking specifically of a string trimmer.

[Anonymous]

I have a Ryobi one and it works perfectly well for our small yard. I also use it to mulch leaves. We don’t have a garage so I love not having to deal with gas or a cord.

The key imo is to pick one system for all of your tools. We have 18v Ryobi everything. I could also see doing 40v for yard tools and a few 18v for drills and such. The batteries tend to be the most expensive part and having several big ones is crucial for yard tools.

I don’t know which brand is better and I think some of them are owned by the same corporate parents anyway. But do your research before and make sure whichever battery you pick has the tools you want available.

[Anonymous]

I wanted the EGO, but settled for the Ryobi bacause Lowe's was out of the EGO mower I wanted. It's fine, probably not as good as a gas mower, but I'm willing to make the tradeoff for quieter and not having to buy gass. It comes with two batteries, which is plenty. One is always in the charger.

Be aware that the mower was the gateway drug for other Ryobi tools I "just had to have", like the trimmer, hedge clippers and leaf blower. The fact that I could buy those without the battery was a plus.

[Anonymous]

Gateway drug! Love you pp.

[Anonymous]

I have had the Ego LM2135SP for 3 years/3 mowing seasons. It was my first mower ever, so I cannot compare it to gas or the Ryobi, but I have been very happy with the Ego. Most of our neighbors use lawn services but almost everyone who mows their own lawn now uses an Ego. My BFF's DH replaced his gas mower with the same model Ego a month before I bought mine, and he is satisfied with it.

PP was so right about how once you buy one product, you will eventually buy them all! I started with the mower, then added the leaf blower because I needed a second battery, then I realized that I needed the edger and string trimmer.

The Ego mower and leaf blower each came with a 56-volt battery. If I was really efficient, I could probably get our .5 acre corner lot -- that slopes up from the street towards the house in both directions -- done using just those two batteries, but I am not efficient, so I throw the first battery on the fast charger when I pop in the second one and then switch again when the second battery runs low to ensure that I do not run out of charge with only a small patch of grass left. If I forget to charge, in a pinch I can use the smaller battery from the edger/string trimmer.

The only maintenance has been replacing the blades after 3 years because I accidentally ran over some rocks when I was trying to push back some English ivy. If I had not used it on the ivy or scraped the rocks, the original mulching blades would probably still be okay.

For your backyard only, one 56-volt battery should be more than adequate, or you could switch to the smaller battery from a string trimmer when the larger one runs low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have had the Ego LM2135SP for 3 years/3 mowing seasons. It was my first mower ever, so I cannot compare it to gas or the Ryobi, but I have been very happy with the Ego. Most of our neighbors use lawn services but almost everyone who mows their own lawn now uses an Ego. My BFF's DH replaced his gas mower with the same model Ego a month before I bought mine, and he is satisfied with it.

PP was so right about how once you buy one product, you will eventually buy them all! I started with the mower, then added the leaf blower because I needed a second battery, then I realized that I needed the edger and string trimmer.

The Ego mower and leaf blower each came with a 56-volt battery. If I was really efficient, I could probably get our .5 acre corner lot -- that slopes up from the street towards the house in both directions -- done using just those two batteries, but I am not efficient, so I throw the first battery on the fast charger when I pop in the second one and then switch again when the second battery runs low to ensure that I do not run out of charge with only a small patch of grass left. If I forget to charge, in a pinch I can use the smaller battery from the edger/string trimmer.

The only maintenance has been replacing the blades after 3 years because I accidentally ran over some rocks when I was trying to push back some English ivy. If I had not used it on the ivy or scraped the rocks, the original mulching blades would probably still be okay.

For your backyard only, one 56-volt battery should be more than adequate, or you could switch to the smaller battery from a string trimmer when the larger one runs low.

TY for this! Did not even know an edger was a thing. Now I think I need one and I haven't even bit the bullet to buy the mower yet. Once you own an edger, where do you use the string trimmer? Around trees and stuff? Hm.

We are switching from having a lawn service, which is why I don't know any of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a Ryobi and a large suburban lot. We own 4 batteries but I can mow front and back with 2 if the grass isn't too long already. DH cuts it too short (IMO) and usually needs 3. The batteries also work with the edger and some other tools.

Look, it's not as robust as a gas mower. It just isn't. But it's quieter, and I don't like to store or mess with gas. The lawn looks fine.

+1 We have a Sun Joe and a large suburban lot, too. This PP is correct. They’re just not as robust as gas, but I’m cutting grass, not excavating rock. In our case, we live in a snowy climate and wanted an electric snow blower and they also have the SnoJoe so the batteries work in both. Makes me not worry about snow blowing early in the morning if I need to.

[Anonymous]

EGO 2135. Amazing mower. Have the blower, edger, weed wacker too. All are great products, can’t recommend enough. Make sure you get at least a 7.5 battery and have something like a 5 as a second. The smaller batteries drain too fast on the mower

[Anonymous]

I the PP EGO poster. Can do .25 acres with the 7.5 battery and have remaining charge to spare

[Anonymous]

Another poster here whose Ryobi is just fine for the suburbs.